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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6: Beauty and Design.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was Kant's fundamental question of metaphysics?
(a) How analytic a priori knowledge is possible.
(b) How existence is possible.
(c) How the self can be conscious.
(d) How synthetic a priori knowledge is possible.

2. In an aesthetic situation that is not ideal, how does one judge?
(a) Logically.
(b) Deliberately.
(c) Immediately.
(d) Through a process of thought.

3. For Kant to have had any possibility of objective knowledge, what must have been true?
(a) Phenomena and noumena must have been closely related.
(b) Phenomena and properties must have been casually related.
(c) Phenomena and substance must have been casually related.
(d) Phenomena and noumena must have been casually related.

4. What is the name of the philosopher who wrote Meditations?
(a) Leibniz.
(b) Hume.
(c) Kant.
(d) Descartes.

5. What did "Critique of Judgment" deal with?
(a) Religion.
(b) Ethics.
(c) Aesthetics.
(d) Logic.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is cosmology?

2. When did Kant publish "Prolegomena to any Future metaphysic which shall lay Claim to being a Science"?

3. What can one assume if they consider the universe in its totality?

4. What elements are essential for aesthetic judgment?

5. What type of truth is something that is known only as the result of some experience?

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